allium cepa

Questions about allium cepa

What is another word for allium cepa?

It depends which allium cepa you mean. In the sense “bulbous plant having hollow leaves cultivated worldwide for its rounded edible bulb”, the synonyms are onion, onion plant. Across all 1 sense there are 2 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of allium cepa?

WordNet records no antonym for allium cepa. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for allium cepa come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of allium cepa

• Full entry for allium cepaAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for allium cepaWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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